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Donald Trump walks into a bar, with his entourage.


The barman looks up, smiling and asks him what he would like.


Trump stares at him and intones, archly "Make me a cocktail you think might suit me"


The barman gets to work, puts a jigger of gin , some tequila, sugar syrup, a treble Machalan and a touch of bitters, ice, lemon and a wedge of orange.


Trump takes a sip, grimaces slightly and tells the man he's impressed with the drink and asks what it's named.


Cheerfully the barman informs him it's called a 'Don Quay'.


Trump smiles, gestures to a minion, holds up three fingers and leaves the bar.

The minion leaves three hundred dollars on the bar and follows Trump and the others out of the bar.


The barman, looks cooly at the money lying on the bar, turns to his girlfriend looking out of the kitchen hatch, and says...


WELL WHAT DOES HE SAY? WHO'S GOT THE PUNCHLINE, EH?


COME ON I'VE DONE THE HEAVY LIFTING HERE, NOW GET IN AND FINISH IT.


I'LL BE BACK TOMORROW AND I EXPECT RESULTS.

So not good. Only in America, only ignorant Fox news, tv obsessed gung ho hollywood movies are real take on everything.


Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump.

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> Be afraid. Be very very afraid.

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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-elect

> ion/12109283/Sarah-Palin-to-endorse-Donald-Trump-a

> t-Iowa-rally-live.html

A pereceptive look at Donald Trump (from a commentator who would not vote for him in a million years) and the unspoken class nature of his appeal:


"He?s figured out that the most effective way to get the wage class to rally to his banner is to get himself attacked, with the usual sort of shrill mockery, by the salary class. The man?s worth several billion dollars ? do you really think he can?t afford to get the kind of hairstyle that the salary class finds acceptable? Of course he can; he?s deliberately chosen otherwise, because he knows that every time some privileged buffoon in the media or on the internet trots out another round of insults directed at his failure to conform to salary class ideas of fashion, another hundred thousand wage class voters recall the endless sneering putdowns they?ve experienced from the salary class and think, ?Trump?s one of us.? "

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/donald-trump-and-politics-of-resentment.html

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I don't think he'll have any chance against Clinton given that he has alienated just about anyone who is not white and right wing. But the campaign will be nasty for sure. Trump has never been a senator, or held any kind of office. He is going to be the antithesis of everything Clinton is.


And just to add, even on the slim chance he does make president, he has no clue of what he will be up against in the senate. He will be kept in line pretty much in the same way Obama was on Medicare.

Trump had a little help with billions of inherited money to be fair.


What I mean LondonM is that the president is beholden to the wishes of the senate etc which is why very little ever changes politically in the USA. It is practically impossible for any president to do anything radical. There also is no real representation of the left in the US political system either. By any measure, it is a system bought off by big business and corporations.

Blah Blah, that's not entirely true or accurate.


First, Donald Trump inherited millions not billions.


Also, Obama successfully reformed health care in America via the passage of the Affordable Care Act which has significantly extended healthcare coverage in the US.


How much a president can accomplish via congressional bills is in part dependent on if his or her party has control of either or both houses of congress (the senate and the house of representatives) and the if the political atmosphere supports bipartisanship.


While Trump is liar and a dangerous demagogue he has tapped into a deep running well of disillusionment and if many who typically don't vote come out and support him in the general election he could win. The one balancing factor is that republican congressional figures have stated that they would vote for Hillary Clinton if he won the party's nomination and many traditional republican voters might do the same or not vote at all. We'll have to wait and see.


To your point though, Donald Trump would not have support from either the Republican party or Democrats in congress. The Republican leadership has already started creating adds for congressmen who are up for re-election this year that distance themselves from Trump.


There is a lot a president can do though outside of congress and I have no doubt that Trump, if elected would abuse his ability to circumvent congress to the extreme. He strikes me as someone who might break enough rules that he'd have to stand for impeachment before the end of his term.

To be fair, Donald Trump isn't really a republican. His policy views are completely at loggerheads with the Republican party.


He is a demagogue who realised his best bet to power in a two party system was to attach himself to one of the existing parties and then cobble together support from any group that would support him.


His supporters are disproportionately uneducated and he has a ground well of support from white supremacists who he is actively courting and who have endorsed him. He recently proposed to kill the innocent family members of ISIS terrorists as a deterrent (which of course is a war crime under the Geneva convention). He threatens anyone including donors who challenge him. He's really a monster. Much worse than anyone I've ever seen in the US political system.

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